Avro 504 C656 near Beverley.
During the afternoon of 29th May 1918 this No.72 Training Squadron aeroplane was being flown in the general area around Beverley aerodrome, where it was based when the pilot failed to recover from a spin. It crashed near Beverley at 16.50hrs. The pupil appears to have been killed as a result of the crash. The instructor was pulled clear and was conscious when extracted from wreckage but died a short time later, he stated that the rudder control had becom jammed. Exactly where the crash occurred is not known but was probably near the aerodrome and certainly within the Beverley registration district as the two deaths were registered there.
Pilot (instructor) - 2Lt Charles Allen Clarke Fullerton RAF, aged 22. Buried Thrybergh (St.Leonard) Old Churchyard, Yorkshire.
Pilot (pupil) - 2Lt Tom Jowett RAF, aged 20. Buried Cleckheaton New Cemetery, Yorkshire (C.C.964).
Charles Fullerton was born on 14th December 1895 and was the son of John Skipworth Herbert Fullerton Esq.JP. and Mary Grace (nee Clarke) Fullerton, of Noblethorpe Hall, Barnsley, Yorkshire. His parents later lived at Thrybergh Hall. He was a trainee land agent until enlisting for Royal Flying Corps as a Flight Cadet in Summer 1917. He received a commission on 30th November 1917. He was posted to No.68 Training Squadron on 27th February 1918 and then to No.72 Training Squadron on 14th February 1918. He is buried in the private burial ground at Thrybergh (St.Leonard) Old Churchyard. His second Christian name is given as "Alan" on his service records.
Tom Jowett was born on 28th December 1897 and was the son of Mr Leonard Jowett of Cleckheaton, Yorkshire. As a young man he worked in a leather tannery at Cleckheaton. He appears to have previously served in the Army Service Corps. He joined the Royal Flying Corps as a Flight Cadet in August 1917, received a commission on December 1917 and was posted to No.72 Training Squadron on 27th January 1918.